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- From: tffreeba@ivax
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: numerous/ 1:ASAT 2:Water 3:misquotes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.001733.201@ivax>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:17:33 -0500
- References: <Bzpyuw.MIG.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- In article <Bzpyuw.MIG.1@cs.cmu.edu>, 0001964967@mcimail.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- > A few points related to recent discussions:
- >
-
- [Some interesting stuff deleted]
-
- > 3) Mis-quotes:
- >
- > a) Just being a stickler for accuracy here, but if any group should
- > get this one right, it would be a science-oriented discussion
- > like this one. Numerous people have made reference to the
- > program that developed the first nuclear weapons by the
- > United States during World War two.
- >
- > Contrary to popular belief, the actual name for this
- > was the "Manhattan District." (I won't print the wrong one)
- > ^^^^^^^^
-
- I am looking at my nuke 'em 'til they glow hat, and attached to it is a pin
- given to the scientists involved with the Manhattan whaterver after the war.
- It says "Manhattan Project." It would seem that this newsgroup is not the
- only place people got confused. Could you expand on this? T. Freebairn
-
- > Yours in Fussbudgetness...
- > Danny Burstein
- >
- > <dburstein@mcimail.com>
-